2016 Northern Colorado Baseball Ryan Pfeifer | Ast. Dir. of Athletic Comm. | O: 970-351-3645 | C: 720-290-8886 | E: [email protected] 10 College World Series Appearances: ‘52, ‘53, ‘55, ‘57, ‘58, ‘59, ‘60, ‘61, ‘62, ‘74 2016 Schedule/Results 1-2, 0-0 WAC Date Opponent Time/Score 2/19 at Wichita State L, 0-11 At 2/20 at Wichita State L, 2-17 2/21 at Wichita State W, 4-3 Series Information 2/22 at Kansas 2:00 p.m. Game 1: Feb. 22, 2 PM 2/23 at Kansas 2:00 p.m. Game 2: Feb. 23, 2 PM 2/26 at Cal State Northridge 8:00 p.m. 2/27 at Cal State Northridge 12:00 p.m. Northern Colorado Kansas Jayhawks Lawrence, Kansas 2/27 at Cal State Northridge 3:30 p.m. Bears 0-1 (0-0) Hoglund Ballpark 2/28 at Cal State Northridge 2:00 p.m. 1-2 (0-0) 3/4 at Pacific 8:00 p.m. 3/5 at Pacific 3:00 p.m. Probable Starters 3/5 at Pacific 6:00 p.m. 3/6 at Pacific 2:00 p.m. Game 1: LHP Nick Tanner (0-0, 0.00 ERA) vs RHP Jon Hander (0-0, 0.00 ERA) 3/8 at Nebraska 12:35 p.m. Game 2: TBA vs RHP Jackson Goddard (0-0, 0.00 ERA) 3/9 at Nebraska 12:35 p.m. 3/11 South Dakota State 2:00 p.m. 3/12 South Dakota State 12:00 p.m. Gameday Coverage 3/13 South Dakota State 12:00 p.m. 3/15 at Colorado Mesa 6:00 p.m. 3/16 at Colorado Mesa 2:00 p.m. ESPN3 KUAthletics.com KUAthletics.com (Free) (Free, KU feed) 3/24 UT Rio Grande Valley* 3:00 p.m. 3/25 UT Rio Grande Valley* 2:00 p.m. 3/26 UT Rio Grande Valley* 12:00 p.m. 3/29 at Air Force 3:00 p.m. Leading Off 4/1 at Sacramento State* 4:00 p.m. 4/2 at Sacramento State* 2:00 p.m. • UNC went 1-2 over the opening weekend, avoiding the weekend sweep with a 4/3 at Sacramento State* 1:00 p.m. 4-3 win over Wichita State on Sunday 4/5 Air Force 3:00 p.m. • Northern Colorado used a two run ninth inning to come back and defeat the 4/8 at Utah Valley* 6:00 p.m. 4/9 at Utah Valley* 6:00 p.m. Shockers for their first win of the season. 4/10 at Utah Valley* 12:00 p.m. • Both Corey Nakakora and Cody Carroll earned their first career wins and save, 4/15 CSU-Bakersfield* 3:00 p.m. respectively on Sunday. Carroll secured the feat for the two by striking out the 4/16 CSU-Bakersfield* 2:00 p.m. final two batters of the game. 4/17 CSU-Bakersfield* 12:00 p.m. 4/19 at Air Force 3:00 p.m. • Northern Colorado finished last year with a 16-32 record, going 12-15 in WAC 4/22 at Chicago State* 5:00 p.m. play. 4/23 at Chicago State* 2:00 p.m. • The Bears qualified for its first WAC Tournament last season, making it as the six 4/24 at Chicago State* 11:00 a.m. seed. In the double-elimination tournament the team went 0-2 falling to No. 3 4/29 at North Dakota* 4:00 p.m. 4/30 at North Dakota* 3:00 p.m. seed North Dakota 7-2 and No. 4 seed Sacramento State 5-0. 5/1 at North Dakota* 11:00 a.m. • Cole Maltese and Dan Reese were named to College Sports Madness Preseason 5/6 Grand Canyon* 3:00 p.m. All-WAC team. Maltese on the first team and Reese on the second. 5/7 Grand Canyon* 2:00 p.m. • Northern Colorado was picked eighth by the WAC coaches in the Preseason 5/8 Grand Canyon* 12:00 p.m. 5/10 Air Force 3:00 p.m. Poll. The Bears are used to out playing their expectations after making it to Mesa, 5/13 at Seattle* 1:00 p.m. Arizona last season for the conference tournament after being picked last in the 5/14 at Seattle* 1:00 p.m. preseason. 5/15 at Seattle* 3:00 p.m. 5/16 at Washington 6:00 p.m. 5/19 New Mexico State* 3:00 p.m. 5/20 New Mexico State* 2:00 p.m. 5/21 New Mexico State* 12:00 p.m. 5/25-5/29 WAC Tournament (Mesa, Ariz.) Follow The Bears on Social Media All times Mountain time and subject to change Home Games in Bold /NorthernColoradoBaseball @NCBearsBaseball Bear Notes QUICK FACTS Scouting Kansas drafted back in 2011. First year: ................................................................. 1924 Kansas is led by 14th year head coach Keith Price who has com- All-time record (years): ..................... 1567-1266-4 (91) piled a 415-368-2 record at the helm for the Jayhawks. Making the grades First year in WAC: .................................................... 2014 Northern Colorado baseball had seven players earn their spot on All-time WAC record (years): ........................... 16-38 (2) KU has only played one game so far this season falling to Ar- the WAC All-Academic team for 2015. Those players were Allen Wac Tournament Record ...........................................0-2 kansas-Little Rock last Saturday 4-2. In the game, the Jayhawks Cook, Caleb Kirkman, Cole Maltese, Dan Reese, Reyn Sugai, Zach College World Series Appearances ............................ 10 offense struggled mustering up only four hits and drawing Heath and Brett Minnick. (1952, ‘53, ‘55, ‘57, ‘58, ‘59, ‘60, ‘61, ‘62, ‘74) only two walks. Kansas’ bullpen pitched well though, going 3.0 2014 record: ........................................................... 16-32 innings allowing just one hit and no runs. Home Grown 2014 WAC record (finish): .............................12-15 (7th) Head coach Carl Iwasaki and his staff have done a good job of Northern Colorado founded: ................................. 1889 Coming into the season the Big 12 coaches’ picked KU to finish keeping the home grown talent in the state. 12 of UNC’s 32 hail Enrollment: ...................................................... 12,000 the season seventh in the 10 team league. from the Centennial State. President: .................................................. Kay Norton Director of Athletics: ............................. Darren Dunn Nickname: .......................................................... Bears Series History vs the Jayhawks Hawaii Five-0 Colors: .................................................... Blue and Gold UNC is 4-5 all-time against Kansas. All nine of the games The Bears have a little Hawaii flair to them with three players Ballpark: ..................................................Jackson Field between the two teams have taken place in Lawrence, starting in plus head coach Carl Iwasaki and assistant Kaiona Correa all Conference: .................... Western Athletic Conference 2005. The last time UNC played the Jayhawks was in 2009 when coming to Colorado from the islands. KU took both games of the two game series . MEDIA SERVICES Exceeding Expectations RYAN PFEIFER- BASEBALL CONTACT Yamane The Man For the second straight year, UNC is going to have to exceed the Office: 970.351.3645 After missing last year with a foot injury, Ryan Yamane has a few expectations of the WAC coaches to make another trip to Mesa, Cell: 720.290.8886 different UNC baseball records within reach. Coming into the Arizona for the conference tournament. The WAC coaches pegged E-Mail: [email protected] 2016 season, he ranks eighth in at bats with 618, 15th in hits the Bears to finish eighth in the conference. Last year the team (181) and second in walks with 114. Yamane is just seven walks was picked to finish last in the preseason, but exceed those The University of Northern Colorado sports information away from tying the program record of 121 set by Jeff Cheek who expectations finishing 7th to make it to Mesa. department is located in Rooms 270A-C, Butler-Hancock played from 1972-75. Athletic Center on the main campus of the University of New Faces Northern Colorado. Its chief aim is to assist local and national What Freshman Jitters? Northern Colorado not only welcomes 11 new players to this media in the coverage of Northern Colorado athletics and to Tyler Yamaguchi showed no freshman jitters during his first three year’s ball club, but also has some new faces on the coaching help fans follow the many Bears programs. games of his colligate career. Coming out of the first weekend of staff. Kai Correa moves up to a full-time assistant after being a For information regarding credentials, interviews, statis- play he is leading the team with a .357 batting average. He has volunteer last season, while Coach Iwa also brought on Jordan tics, press conferences, etc., contact Ryan Pfeifer or Kobee done well in the lead-off spot setting the table and scoring four Stouffer and Dan Siegfried as a volunteer assistant and director of Stalder, athletic communications director, at 970.351.1065 times for UNC. In his second career game Yamaguchi had three baseball operations. or [email protected]. hits, all of them being doubles. Class of 2017 MEDIA GUIDELINES Less Free Runners While the 2016 season is just about to kick-off, UNC has already All interview requests with any Northern Colorado coach UNC’s pitching staff will be working on giving less free passes as secured eight new players for its 2017 team. During the early or student-athlete must be coordinated through the North- the season continues to progress. In the series against Wichita signing period this year the Bears have brought in three infield- ern Colorado sports information office.